PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2352, 7 January 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

- >\ The Hon. F. M. . B. Fisher will tfe*./ sign from his position as a-member ofi the Executive in the course of a das., or two, probably to-day. £ Tho Hon. A. T.' Maginnity, M.L.C, r | of Nelson, is at present on a visit taj Rotorua. >•

The Hon. J. Allen, will 'arrive' froml [ the south by this morning's Bteamer.. f The Hon. Alfred Deakin,'who watft. expected to arrive by the Marama last night en. route: to San' Francisco, whercj" he is to represent the Commonwealthat the Panama Exhibition, was not oni the steamer. • i Professor Fawsitt, who occupies ther 1 chair of Chemistry at Sydney sity, arrived in Wellington hy the Mart"; ama last evening. He is by Mrs. Fawsitt and their child, and* they propose to spend about twoP months' holiday in New Zealand. Will be guests of Mr. Robert Gardiner* of Palmerston North, for some time rbut may afterwards go further afield.'. I Mr. E. J. Tait, general manager inri New South Wales for J. C. Williamson! Ltd., arrived in Wellington on a busi-l ness visit last evening by the Mamara. : j s Mr. F. G. Bolton returned to Welling-J. ton 'yesterday by the Marama after anj absence from New Zealand of some* seven months. - !

Staff-Captain Sharp, of the Army Wellington Headquarters, left for tlie South by the Wahine last night. ■

Mr. v Andrew Collins, of Island Bay/ well-known in Labour circles, who met' with a painful accident ■ last week through falling off a tramcar, is mak-<j. ing- good progress towards recovery* Besides shock, Mr. Collins suffered se-f vere cuts and bruises to his left nana r \ due to one of the wheelß of the tram/ passing over it. Fortunately the hana was protected to some extent by iy leather bag .which Mr. Collins watf fi carrying. Otherwise the injury would? have been very 6evere. , \ Inspector McGrath, of 'Auckland, will leake to take charge of the Hawks s\ Bay police district in a. few days. tus successor in Auckland is Inspector A<; Cruickshank, of Timaru. '

Lieutenant Quicke, who was killed action against the Germans, was horn: at Kaikoura, Marlborough, iand was years of age. He was a grandson or the late Mr. A. S. Collins, of Nelson, t and some time ago succeeded aB heir to the St. Cyr estate in Devonshire. J Dr. J. P- Kennedy, late of Levin, died in London on December 28 last.' Deceased, who practised his profession) at Levin for a number of years, was very well known throughout the diw trict. He was 59 years'of age. • \ The death of MS\ John Hyndmanf Russell'occurred at Levin on Tuesday, after an illness extending over several months. Deceased was born in Staf-. fordshire, in England, and emigrated to Australia, going to the BaUarafr goldfields. He arrived at Dunedin in, 1860, and took part in tho Gabriel's Gullj; rush; then went to tlio West Coast, where he worked in tho same mine, as'■ the late Mr. E. J. Seddon, and the twc' became close friends. The late Mr<| Eussoll arrived in Wellington in 1874, and took part in the Parihaka eanwl paign. Ho went to Levin m 180G andj settled there. ■ .